The NBA filed a statement about the call.

Damn officials. But it’s over now, and it’s not coming back. Game 6 awaits and CMoney nailed it- time to move on and ready for our next game. GO SPURS GO

Here’s hoping that the officials don’t influence the outcome of Game 6 for either team.

The league also almost came out and stated something about Game 5 of the NO series, how lopsided it was (and the fact that Duncan only got 1 FT while driving to the lane and getting clobbered non-stop)......and EVERYONE was talking about the blown officiating well after the game.

We got Salvatore and Javie respectively (game 6 and 7), and if you remember in Game 6, it was no contest, we blew the Hornets outta the water. Duncan went to the line like 15-20 times. That said….Kobe didn’t get 1 FT, BUT at the same time, he’s only taken SIX Free Throws this whole series!!! So it’s not like he’s going to the line 15 times a game a la Utah series, and then ONE game he doesn’t. Tim was going to the line 9-15 times a game in the NO series, except Game 5. Jackson’s just doing his usual whining to the refs about why they aren’t sucking Kobe’s ballsacks nonstop. (What he doesn’t realize is that they can’t because there isn’t any room nowadays with all the bandwagon fans. It’s gotten so bad Farmar has to wear muffs at night.)

Long story short, expect excellent referreeing if you are a Spurs fan (aka the league handing Game 5 to the Spurs unless they play like they did in Game 4) in Game 5. They even sent in Javie, who’s partial to the road team. I don’t like it, since that leads to even MORE conspiracy crap for those numbnut theorists, but if you start seeing some really F’ed up calls go the Spurs’ way in LA…well remember you saw it here first.

(Wow I even got a Farmar shot in there…..it’s infectious!!)

I know I am going to get blasted for this, but I can take it. I think it is chickenshit for the NBA to come out and say that. I know it was a foul, everyone does, but I don’t think the NBA has any business taking a side on judgement calls. Clock malfunctions, OK. Rules problems, OK. But judgement calls, come on. Have you ever heard the MLB come out and say a particular pitch should have been a strike instead of a ball.

Obviously we all agree that Odom blocked Parker’s shot, Fisher hit the rim, Kobe traveled, etc. If you are going to single out one mistake (after further review) then you have to single out all of them.

Again, I am not saying it was a good call, I am just saying I think this sets a bad precedent.

Bring on the hate replies as you see fit.

Not at all what I am talking about. That’s like talking about a ball that was or wasn’t dribbled on the line. And for the record they are going to go to instant replay for that one. Do you think the NBA will do that for fouls as well?

I like how it says, “with the benefit of replay”. Really, you needed the benefit of replay to determine that. Blah!

To address PSLAKERFAN’S point, it is sort of chickenshit and sort of not. Both Odom’s block and Fisher’s shots were not at all obvious calls. And they were both very difficult to discern at full speed. But, yes, I think they do set a weird - if not bad - precedent by making an announcement like that. Should they catalog EVERY obvious missed call from EVERY game? It’s silly.

It just adresses further the need for a refinement in the NBA. 1st, instant replay on END OF HALF or END OF GAME calls needs to happen. They use it only to see if a ball got off the player’s hands before the red light goes on in the backboard as it is now. They need to expand it for shot clock and game clock issues. Also, 2nd they need to FIRE all the refs that have been linked to the game for 10 + years. The NFL has a few refs like that but to thier credit they constantly flux in new refs, etc…you don’t see the same ref in 2 different games a year, much less if the NFL actually did series. Game 5 will be the 4th-5th time the Lakers have seen Javie (remember they’ve only played 14 games now), and as pslakerfan stated, he’s thier “Crawford”. Imagine if the Spurs saw Crawford at least 5 times a playoffs? Whoo-ee….

Also I think that the NBA had to come out because A) to everyone, this is a marquee matchup. Everyone is actually talking about it, and it’s (last game) getting TONS of bad publicity. Also B) it was Spurs vs. Crawford, once again not Spurs vs. whoever….and this thing (bad reffing) already DID happen in Game 5 of the NO series. (Remember NO’s parade to the FT line, Duncan gets 1 FT, suspicious no calls galore, etc.) A lot of the pundits at ESPN and CNNSI, NBA.com, etc even stated the League was considering saying something then, but didn’t. I think they felt pressured now to do just that.

NO hate replies here pslakerfan, we don’t like this any more than you do (judging from the responses/replies here).

Because the NBA said it screwed up the last few minutes of it and someone should have fouled out? Eh? Like I said, the NBA has had a really tough year, and needs drastic action at the offseason tilt.

I think the NBA had to do this to allay all the conspiracy talk.

That said, I think the NBA is far and away the hardest sport to officiate. In football, an official gets to look at a play and think to himself for a few seconds before throwing the flag. Then he gets to talk it over with everyone else before they penalize the team. In baseball, there is very little judgment; everything is an “either or” call. Either the ball was within the strike zone in the ump’s head, or it wasn’t. Either the baserunner beat the throw, or he didn’t.

I believe the NBA’s only solution is more transparency. They always talk about how officials are meticulously rated; why not make those ratings public, on a website like NBA.com? Everyone already thinks NBA officials are incompetent, so it might actually help to see how much they get right, in addition to how much they get wrong.

i’m kind of waiting for someone to chime into this thread about the non call in cleveland last year – remember the lebron/bowen non-call. it was almost the exact same thing as what happened on tuesday evening.

yup, it was a foul and nope it didnt get called.

we can cry foul all we want , but i think it evened out in the end , especially when you dconsider a lot of the game’s big calls. even if it didnt even out, the outcome of this game was not decided in that one play. shame on our spurs for being in that spot. a bunch of what the spurs faithful have said on here is true in regard to calls and no calls, etc. but i dont think the no-call was a “crawford-ism” against us here.

this is pissing me off to no end. if the spurs would have made even half of their missed wide open shots they would have been 20 pts ahead. as much as i hate joey crawfish (i know), and wanna spit in his food and punch him in his fat bald head- this wasnt his fault. we lost because we couldnt hit the side of a barn. none of the shots fell. and i made some new cusswords up that night. fuck it. the spurs have to try their damndest to force a game 7. this is my rant. thanks.

41 posts later… Good thing we’ve moved on from talking about no calls….